Projects

ZynAddSubFX

ZynAddSubFX is a powerful realtime, multi-timbral software synthesizer for Linux and Windows. It is microtonal, and the instruments made by it sounds like those from professional keyboards. The program has effects like Reverb, Echo, Chorus, Phaser...

LMMS - Linux MultiMedia Studio

LMMS aims to be a free alternative to popular (but commercial and closed- source) programs like FruityLoops, Cubase and Logic giving you the ability of producing music with your computer by creating cool loops, synthesizing and mixing sounds, arranging samples, having more fun with your ... [More] MIDI-keyboard and much more... LMMS combines the features of a tracker-/sequencer-program (pattern-/channel-/ sample-/song-/effect-management) and those of powerful synthesizers and samplers in a modern, user-friendly and easy to use graphical user-interface. [Less]

Qsynth

Qsynth is a fluidsynth GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt4 toolkit using Qt Designer. Eventually it may evolve into a softsynth management application allowing the user to control and manage a variety of command line softsynth but for the moment it wraps the excellent FluidSynth. ... [More] FluidSynth is a command line software synthesiser based on the Soundfont specification. [Less]

Csound

Csound is a powerful and yet easy to use musical synthesis package. Csound was constructed in the tradition of so-called music-N languages, among which the best-known is Music V. It consists of an orchestra- and score-driven executable, written in C for portability. Since Csound is a computational ... [More] language, it is highly flexible and efficient; complexity is gained only at the expense of computation power. Basically, Csound reads some files and creates the result as a sound file on disk or, on faster machines, in real time through a DAC. [Less]

Qsampler

QSampler is a LinuxSampler GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt3 toolkit using Qt Designer. At the moment it just wraps as a client reference interface for the LinuxSampler Control Protocol (LSCP). LinuxSampler is a work in progress. The goal is to produce a free, open source pure ... [More] software audio sampler with professional grade features, comparable to both hardware and commercial Windows/Mac software samplers. The initial platform will be Linux because it is one of the most promising open source multimedia operating systems. Thanks to various kernel patches and the Jack Audio Connection Kit, Linux is currently able to deliver rock solid sub-5 millisecond MIDI-to-Audio response. [Less]

mda VST plug-ins

Source code for "mda" audio processing plug-ins in VST format. Available for many years as closed-source freeware from mda-vst.com

The Om Modular Synthesizer

BEAST/BSE

Beast is a powerful music composition and modular synthesis application released as free software under the GNU GPL and GNU LGPL, that runs under unix. It supports a wide range of standards in the field, such as MIDI, WAV/AIFF/MP3/OggVorbis/etc audio files and LADSPA modules.

mmsynth

MonjeMono Synth (mmsynth) is a sound synthesizer created with Qt that allows the user to select between various synths and skins. The synth engines and skins are clearly separated and they communicate each other only using MIDI, usually note on/off and controllers. The skins are created with ... [More] Qt's designer (http://doc.trolltech.com/latest/designer-manual.html) so its very intuitive, and the synths have to overload just one method from the Synth interface (or several for full compliance), so its very easy to create new synths. Now its on the programmer and user hands to create nice sounds and music! [Less]

LNX_Studio

LNX_Studio is a unique and handy music studio tool which provides a simple and friendly way to make music. Its free and also allows you to make music in real-time with other people on-line.